PARISDREAMTIME – A European's Artist Life in the "City of Lights"
Watercolor Paintings, Drawings, Musings
The Tree’s Secrets
The Trees Secrets - pencil drawing in little Moleskine 9 x 14 cm
‘Tis just that some return be made;
Sure some return is due from me
To thy cool shadows, and to thee.
When thou to birds dost shelter give,
Thou music dost from them receive;
If travellers beneath thee stay
Till storms have worn themselves away,
That time in praising thee they spend
And thy protecting pow’r commend.
The shepherd here, from scorching freed,
Tunes to thy dancing leaves his reed;
Whilst his lov’d nymph, in thanks, bestows
Her flow’ry chaplets on thy boughs.
Shall I then only silent be,
And no return be made by me?
No; let this wish upon thee wait,
And still to flourish be thy fate.
To future ages may’st thou stand
Untouch’d by the rash workman’s hand,
Till that large stock of sap is spent,
Which gives thy summer’s ornament;
Till the fierce winds, that vainly strive
To shock thy greatness whilst alive,
Shall on thy lifeless hour attend,
Prevent the axe, and grace thy end;
Their scatter’d strength together call
And to the clouds proclaim thy fall;
Who then their ev’ning dews may spare
When thou no longer art their care,
But shalt, like ancient heroes, burn,
And some bright hearth be made thy urn.
Try to draw your cat not sleeping…oh dear! This is KNUT (pronounce cnute:)
KNUT - inkpen-sketch in little moleskine sketchbook
2011 / 2012 …..Before and After……
Before…
Before ....Ink drawing in Moleskine Sketchbook
and after dressing up - Ink drawing in Moleskine Sketchbook
Hey girls, need a new pair? (n°2) – shoes & other accessories -fashion illustration
Hey girls, need a new pair? - watercolor painting, fashion illustration, seen in Vogue Paris
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Hey girls, need a new pair (no.2) – Work in Process
For the girls: Shoes, Perfumes, Jewellery - watercolor, ink
“When did you take up painting?” – early memories…. a letter to a friend
Early Memories - Ink drawing in my journal - click on the picture, if you really want to see it "big"
Me at age….almost 1 ? On old photos I find that I looked like a Mini-Sumo….well, babies often do, no?
in a letter to a friend:
…………….”This morning I was writing my journal, in bed, while playing with one of the cats, and drinking Coffee, lately I have taken up journaling again and it soothes me to do it in the morning.
I have been thinking for some time now of how to do a sort of curriculum vitae in images if I had time lol (makes me laugh) and this illustration could be an adequat answer to the question: since when do you paint?
or: when did it all begin?….
It is a bit provocative and really done quickly and without thinking, but that’s what I like about it,
cause it’s all about getting messy, too, isn’t it? – I could have drawn babypoop in, too. I’m not sure my parents let me play with ink at that age, but I think other things like water, jam, earth, (poop?) have served…………………………….”
Anyone else out there, obsessed with paper ?
A quiet corner in my father's garden, summer last year.... - Watercolor, ink, on 400 g Hahnemühle Paper
This morning, while frantically rummaging through some more or less new sketchbooks, I found this Hahnemühle Watercolor sketchbook, with very thick paper, which I love and completely had forgotten about, and two or three paintings I did during the summer vaccation last year in my dad’s garden….
I admit it. I am obsessive-compulsive with paper, especially sketchbooks, but paper in general. I’m always sketching, every day,, AND I’m always buying new sketchbooks before the old ones are full. Hmm. Confession time. November. LOL. Tell me that I’m not the only one…
winter coming
working on a new project, winter is approaching, darkness begins at around 5, we need light.
Autumnal reflections - watercolor on paper
Autumnal reflections - Watercolor on paper
Black Dream or The Days Eat Me
Black Dream or The days eat me - ink drawing - Moleskine sketchbook
- The days eat me – ink drawing sketchbook
The Salon de la Photo – Paris October 2011
ink, oilpastel, chinese chopstick:) - My Moleskine Sketchbook
I worked at the Salon de la Photo and did this sketch during a quiet moment – of which there were very few….
This morning, frustrated by what seems to look like lack of time, I grabbed some oil-pastels and partly colored this sketch. Of course, you have to lay some tissue paper into the double page of the Moleksine sketchbook, if you don’t want sticky bits of oilpastels everywhere on the page. I think this is a nice way to emphasize certain parts of a sketch which are important to you, – without having to drag out the watercolor when you just have some minutes.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not a big fan of fast art, but sometimes it’s either Fast or Nothing. Question of survival !
With love from Paris
Andrea
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Défilé DIOR automne 2011
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